£12.95
Title: Old Fitz Edward Fitzgerald and East Coast Sailing
Author: Frank Hussey
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Publication Date: 1974 First Edition
Format: Hardback
Condition: Picture covers with slight bumping to spine otherwise in a good condition. The dust jacket is tatty with a piece missing at the front and has been price clipped. The pages are nice and clean with photographic illustrations to middle of the book. Maps to endpapers.
Book measures 22cm x 14.5cm with 162 pages.
1 in stock
This book shows Edward Fitzgerald as a much more forceful character in a rather different role. Local stories of old Fitz still abound in Suffolk where from 1860 onwards he kept his yacht, The Scandal, named after the staple product of Woodbridge. He also had a half share in a herring-lugger, The Meum and Tuum, with his favourite sea companion, the local Seaman Posh Fletcher. Mr Hussey recounts not only Fitzgerald’s own voyages in the scandal, but also the scandals history after Fitzgerald sold her., and he also looks at the one literary result of Fit’s interest in the sea, his little book on Sea words and phrases. This is a delight full book which will please both literary readers interested in Fitzgerald and Yachtsman who know and love the East Anglia coast.
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